In geostatistics (and also in other applications in science and engineering) we are now performing updates on Gaussian process models with thousands of components. These large-scale inferences involve computational challenges, because the updating equations cannot be solved as written, owing to the size and cost of the matrix operations. They also involve representational challenges, to account...

Fiji’s 1990 Constitution was designed to protect and promote the interests of indigenous Fijians‘ disproportionate parliamentary representation, more influence for the Great Council of Chiefs, affirmative action in the public service, and the reservation of the office of Prime Minister for indigenous Fijians. Its affirmation of indigenous rights attracted some sympathy in the region, but the Co...

Centres Program. STCRC is Australia's largest dedicated tourism research organisation, with over $187 million invested in tourism research programs, commercialisation and education since 1997. The aim of STCRC research is to underpin the development of a dynamic, internationally competitive and sustainable tourism industry. STCRC is a not-for-profit company owned by its industry, government and...

The key step of generating the well-known Hsiao code is to construct a {0, 1}-check-matrix in which each column contains the same odd-number of 1’s and each row contains the same number of 1’s or differs at most by one for the number of 1’s. We also require that no two columns are identical in the matrix. The author solved this problem in 1986 by introducing a type of recursively balanced matri...

Frame aggregation is a mechanism by which multiple frames are combined into a single transmission unit over the air. Frames aggregated at the AMSDU level use a common CRC check to enforce integrity. For longer aggregated AMSDU frames, the packet error rate increases significantly for the same bit error rate. Hence, multiple studies have proposed doing AMSDU aggregation adaptively based on the e...

Resistance of gastrointestinal nematode worms to anthelmintic drenches has led to new tactics for treatment of worms in sheep. Regional, calendar-based drenching programs have been replaced with programs designed for individual farms, which are based on measures of worm burden, drench resistance and genetic resistance of sheep to worms. To support these new worm control strategies, the Australi...

It is known that a naive implementation of the decryption algorithm in the McEliece cryptosystem allows an attacker to recover the secret matrix P by measuring the power consumption. We demonstrate that a similar threat is present in the QC-LDPC variant of the McEliece cryptosystem. We consider a naive implementation of the decryption algorithm in the QC-LDPC McEliece cryptosystem. We demonstra...